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Children (8–13) were not covered by this Act: it had been the deliberate intention of the 1833 Act that a mill might use two sets of children on a relay system and the obvious method of doing so did not require split shifts. A further Act, the Factories Act 1853, set similar limits on the hours within which children might work.
The Factory Act 1847 stipulated that as of 1 July 1847, women and children between the ages of 13 and 18 could work only 63 hours per week. The Bill further stipulated that as of 1 May 1848, women and children 13–18 could work only 58 hours per week, the equivalent of 10 hours per day.
From 1800 to 1850, children made up 20-50% of the mining workforce. [1] In 1842, children made up over 25% of all mining workers. [2] Children made up 33% of factory workers. [2] In 1819, 4.5% of all cotton workers were under the age of 10 and 54.5% were under the age of 19. [7]
Of all the child workers, the most serious cases involved street children and trafficked children due to the physical and emotional abuse they endured by their employers. [81] To address the issue of child labour, the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child Act was implemented in 1959. [84]
Strictly speaking, it is Peel's Cotton Mills and Factories Act 1819 which (although also ineffective for want of a means of proper enforcement) paved the way for subsequent Factory Acts that would regulate the industry and set up effective means of regulation; but it is the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802 which first recognised by ...
The Act passed in 1819 was only a pale shadow of Owen's draft of 1815. The bill presented in 1815, applied to all children in textile mills and factories; with children under ten were not to be employed; children between ten and eighteen could work no more than ten hours a day, with two hours for mealtimes and half an hour for schooling this made a 12.5 hour day; Magistrates were to be ...
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This work was dangerous and children often lost their lives while working. [Next Paragraph opening statement may be incorrect. Uk passed the 1833 Factory Act [3]] In 1839 Prussia was the first country to pass laws restricting child labor in factories and setting the number of hours a child could work. [1]